Empowering the local church to serve children and youth

The project will provide an infusion of resources to enable new Christian Education resources to be written by writers from the IED Church and then printed locally and distributed to the entire IED Church body. Equally important the project will provide teacher training in theology, pedagogy, Bible study methods, addressing social realities of the Dominican Republic.

The children and youth of the Dominican Republic are coming to the IED Church with a hunger and thirst for God, for a spiritual and moral foundation that they are unable to find at home. The mission of the IED is to open her arms to receive these children and to be able to offer them the Good News of the love and justice of God.

A good measure will be to double the number of active Bible School Extension groups from 32 to 64 and also double the number of children and youth participating from 775 to 1500. To have successfully completed at least 6 teacher training sessions preparing at least 100 teachers to use the new Christian Ed materials written and produced by the IED Church. To gather testimonies from the teachers of lives of children touched and changed. The IED Church takes over this program fully after an initial (2-3 years) period supported by funds from the Advance.